Who actually owns the Pokemon IP? 

Just saw that the entire album is available on Spotify. Wonder if any of the tracks are going to have the effect Sparkle did (i.e., blowing up on YouTube and getting public performances in Japan).

Agree.  The presence of Widow fundamentally changes how fight interactions work.  Pros popping off on OWL is popular for the broadcast, but it just means that the rest of the team holds back and waits for respawns. 

Bit bummed to hear it’s not as good as Your Name, and even more so that it’s not getting a release in the West until early 2020. How’s the soundtrack? The title track, Grand Escape, is fantastic, and I’m really curious if the rest of the soundtrack holds up. RADWIMPS’ Your Name album was probably my favorite album of…

There’s talk on r/COW that this shift is going to make Widow and Double Sniper comps dominant again, which I find to be worse than 3-3 ever was. The presence of long-range damage dealers in a game in which almost all of the other characters are close to mid-range and have multiple counters is a poor decision in my…

Nice, good to know.  Thanks for the link.

Curious if the Japan-exclusive Dragon Quest 11 Loto Edition bundle that includes the customized Switch and Joy-Cons has this new model or the old model. It doesn’t release until late September, but presumably they’ve already started manufacturing the consoles, so who knows.  For $525, I certainly hope it features the…

Already have Crunchyroll, Prime Video, Netflix, and Hulu; looks like I’m going to have to sub to Funimation and Hidive as well to see some of the anime I’m interested in.  Hopefully more of the “not currently available” shows get picked up as well.  Is there anything else worthwhile on Hidive from past seasons besides…

If I recall correctly, I believe that might be a record for ALL GDQs, AGDQ and SGDQ included.

A Super Paper Mario theme (if only because that was the most traditional platformer themed game in the series) would be rad.

I think what I ended up having to do was sign up for the free trial and then email them to switch it.  I don’t recall ever seeing an option to switch to Platinum Annual, and I only knew it existed at all because it was listed in fine print on one of their plan pages.  Not sure why they hide it so much; probably…

I think what I ended up having to do was sign up for the free trial and then email them to switch it.  I don’t…

I signed up for the Platinum Annual plan last year (that is, the plan Amazon does not advertise and that you have to literally email their support staff and request that they let you sign up for it) and have been hard-pressed to use all of my credits.  At time of writing I still have 8 credits I need to use before…

I signed up for the Platinum Annual plan last year (that is, the plan Amazon does not advertise and that you have to…

Coming from a St. Louis native, Andy’s Frozen Custard is better than Ted Drewes, especially their concretes.

The GBA and 3DS Fire Emblem games, the GBA and DS Advance Wars games, the GBA game Zone of the Enders: the First of Mars, and the GBA game Tactics Ogre: the Knight of Lodis. Turn-based tactics and turn-based strategy RPGs are synonymous with handheld consoles in my mind. It’s too bad that those genres are so…

Do the textures actually look that bad in game?  Those house screenshots look like something out of the Sims 2.  I haven’t played the Sims 4 in a couple months, but I don’t remember it looking that bad.

This gives at least one restaurateur’s perspective:  

Age with this.  Costco locations in both Missouri and Maryland have sold queso blanco for over a decade.

It’s pretty easy to make that stuff at home for cheap, once you take into account the initial investment in the chilis. Thirty grams of pickled malagueta chilis to one pound of honey. Mash the peppers and add to a saucepan with the honey. Bring to 200F, stirring regularly. Turn off heat and let sit for 90 mins.…

WoW’s auction house has been taking a cut of all sales since at least 2005, potentially even from launch in 2004. I’m sure as you say there are even earlier examples from MMOs of an auction fee. While Fallout 76 certainly seems to have its issues, people complaining about Bethesda implementing a system other games…

Never a good look to make your head of live service publicly state that, no, the game is not dead.